The private military contractor Blackwater “ has sent a private sector warship equipped with helicopters to the Gulf of Aden , and is offering its services to shipowners concerned with Somali pira cy. “ Blackwater Worldwide executive vice-president Bill Matthews said: “We have been contacted by shipowners who say they need our help
When arguing against the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act last year, I wrote If discrimination based on comprehensive genetic screening is legal, we can expect health providers to tailor plans according to our individual risk factors. That might be to the disadvantage of a minority of high-risk individuals, but greater information about risk
Economics is not a complicated science. This may not seem obvious to you if you've following the news from Washington, where a cabal of politicians, financiers and lobbyists have been spent the last several weeks desperately making a series of increasingly complicated, expensive, and ultimately unsuccessful plans to "save the economy."
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This post is inspired by the State of Texas' recent abduction of 416 kids from a polygamist compound . One way to measure the degree of freedom in a society is by looking at the kinds of associations made by its members. A free people can choose to enter into any association they wish, and are not forced into any associations against their will
USA Today: Vice president [ Cheney] was to push Karzai to take steps to extend Afghanistan's governance beyond Kabul and conduct successful elections next year. The discussion also was to address ways the Afghan government can curb corruption and deal with rising production of poppies, which are used to make narcotic drugs that fund insurgent operations